Andrea Reimer

Andrea Reimer is a Canadian politician, who served on Vancouver, British Columbia's City Council from 2008 to 2018. She was first elected in 2002 to the Vancouver School Board as a Green Party candidate. She was defeated as a Green Party candidate in her re-election campaign in 2005 and then joined the Vision Vancouver party to support Gregor Robertson's mayoral campaign. She subsequently ran for and won a council seat in the 2008 municipal election. After serving four terms on council, she chose not to run for re-election in the 2018 municipal election. She is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, and served on the UBC Board of Governors as a provincial appointee from December 2019 to October 2020.

Andrea is the host of the SHE.THEY.US podcast, focusing on the impact of Canada's housing crisis on women and gender diverse humans, now in season 3. The podcast was created by the Pan-Canadian Voice for Women's Housing (PCVWH), a national project focused on ensuring housing policies across Canada include and prioritize women and children.

Background Reimer was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and put into foster care. When she was eight months old, she was adopted by a couple from Vancouver prior to her starting school. which included travel to places throughout Canada, the United States, Asia, Central America, Europe and North Africa.

Although an atheist, at 19 Reimer enrolled at Concordia University to major in religious studies. While executive director of the Wilderness Committee, Reimer supported the creation of a carbon tax by the BC Provincial Government. She ran for re-election as a Green Party candidate in 2005 yet was defeated. and won a council seat in the 2008 municipal election. and corporate logos from schools. She pushed for getting school garden programs into schools.

In January 2003, she supported the Green Party's position against bringing the Olympic Games to Vancouver in 2010 due to concerns about the money it would require.

City Council As City Councillor, Reimer was a member of Gregor Robertson's Greenest City Team. The team was tasked with catalyzing immediate action on green issues, a ten-year action plan to become the world's greenest city and creating an environment supportive of green economic development in the city of Vancouver. Reimer introduced a motion, which passed, to open Vancouver city data to the public and endorse the principles of open source. Reimer introduced a motion, which passed unanimously, to allow Vancouver residents to keep hens in their backyards. The motion was opposed by the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Vancouver Humane Society, and the BC Poultry Association.

Reimer's other appointments on Vancouver City Council included: Chair, Standing Committee on Planning and Environment Vancouver Economic Development Commission and was appointed to the Regional Planning Committee, Agricultural Committee, in response to provincial legislation proposed by Coleman to bring homeless people to shelters during extreme weather, even against their will. Reimer posted that instead of police bringing homeless people to shelters during extreme weather, she was thinking of introducing legislation to have the police bring Coleman to Jenny Craig, an international weight loss company, on his next visit to Vancouver.

Coleman responded by calling the comment amateurish and from a councillor that "doesn't know any better." Reimer later apologized for the posting.

Family Reimer and her husband have a child. They live near Trout Lake in East Vancouver.